The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-02-17
United States attorney for the Eastern dis.

United States attorney for the Eastern dis.
trict OF Wisconsin.
The president sent the following nomina.
tions OF postmasters to the senate: Ezra
a. Glover, Jr New Richmond. Wis; Peter
Y. Cottrell, Fort Howard, Wis; Patrick
Talent, Butte City, Mont.
Ezra "A, Glover, who was appointed
postmask-~ at New Richmond, Wis. is a
! merchant vi that town and a brother OF
John +. Glover Of Hudson, a retired law
yer. prominent politician lumberman. and
! q friend OF Postmaster General Villas. He
is responsible for the nomination. Clio.
yer Is young man.
The shortage OF Benjamin r. Chamber
lain, bookkeeper for Combes, Hannah Go.
Chicago, who has been arrested fer em
bezzlement. is $1l, 900.
Agcl Babb shot and killed Andrew Moon.
colored. at Wilmington, Ohio. He saya
be shot in selfdeiense. The men had quar-.
relied some time ago.
The Montana independents advicee
from all over the territory are that
chinook is coming. The temperature IL
abont zero at all points.
Mr.. Parnell denies that he is going to the
continent. He says his physician is we'll
! 90 ~''AcN "AtA pAoSACSO. AC L 01 ACA'
lites will oppose III parliament all projects
relating to tho liquor traffic in Ireland on
the ground that the question should be re-
served for an Irish parliament. Edward
Kennedy OF Dublin has been elected by the
Nationalist OF South Sligo without OPP.
position to the commons to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the decision OF Thomas Sax
ton to sitior West Belfast instead OF South
Sligo he having been returned by both dis
tricts. Parnell purposely avoided absolute
| approval OF the principle OF the plan OF the
| campaign in order not to offend a number
OF Gladstone members who dsapprove the
plan but are inclined to hold onto it as q
| desperate temporary expedient. Parnell
spoke with energy and was much exhausted
at the end. Mr.. Gladstone promises to sup
port the Parnel amendment.
| The government has appointed a com.
mittee to consider the ACCESSIBILITY Of es-
tablishing in London a hospital for the
treatment Of persons afflicted with hydro.
| phObia, to be conducted upon the princi
pies established by Pasteur.
In the house Of commons Parnell moved
his amendment to the address in reply to the
queens speech. The amendment is as fol-
lows: The relation between the owners and
occupants OF land in Ireland have not been
seriously disturbed in the cases of those
who granted their tenants such attachments
as were demanded by the prices OF agri.
cultural and pastoral produce. The rem.
edy for the crisis in Irish agrarian affairs
will be found, not in increased stringency.
criminal procedure or in pursuit OF such
novel, doubtful and unconstitutional
measures az those recently taken by her
ma jcsty's government, but in such reform
OF law and system OF government, as will
satisfy needs and secure the confidence of
Irish people.
When asked by Il correspondent what he
thought Of the threatening state OF affairs
which might possibly draw the United
States and Great Britain into hostilities
Sir Frederick Middleton, commanding the
Canadian forces, said the subject, was al
most too absurd to talk about. So
little Importance have we attached
to all the buster that has been fired off re-
Gently that neither the minister of militia
nor myself have even referred to the sub
iect. Not a single special order has been
| sent out OF the department to officers COM
,nanding corps to hold them selves in readi.
ness and report on the efficiency of their
regiments, as would Immediately have been
done if any serious movement were con-
tcmplated. No, this generation will never
see war between the great Enslish-speaking
nations of the world.
In tho case OF Jesse P. Farley vs. Norman
W. Kittson and James Hill, in the su.
! preme court, Judge Gray delivered the
opinion OF the court reversing the decision
! OF the lower court with costs. The opinion
holds that the pleadings and statements OF
the case were not in such shape that the
court could justly rule upon it. 1.-THE case
can hereafter be put III such shape that It
can have consider alton in an equity sense
the merits can DO determined by this court
and the court below without prejudice
| frnrn fbis a. in
the case stands just where it did at first,
with no division Of the equities and no rul.
ing for the appellant.
ations to the senate ON Monday the 7th,
inst. +. c. Love, Missouri, consul general
atthe City OF Mexico: J. NJ. Needham, In.
diana, agent for the Indians OF the Lemhi
agency, Idaho.
The Canadian Pacific is blockaded by
snow and slides. There has been no through
mail for twelve days. 1t is unknown when
one will get through. Mail is coming via
American roads. The Fraser river is now
frozen almost to its mouth and naviga.
ton closed. There are several inches OF
ice at Port Moody, tho Canadian Pacific
| terminus. Telegraph lines have been down
in all directions for q week.
Mr.. Strait was informed by Secretary
| Bayard that the claim of Mrs. j. Cakes OF
! st Paul OF an interest in the Venezuela
award would receive attention as soon rs
congress had taken the necessary steps in
! legislation to authorize the payment Of the
| money.
Washington socity is lionizing Mr.. De
We're Graham, an Engish,nan who is said
to sing divinely.
Chang Jen Hoon, the Chinese minister at
| Washington, wears blue silk over a petit
coat OF white brocade and sports big dia.
mond in a button on his black cap.
The Canadian Pacific shops at Yale. B.
C., were consumed by fire. Loss, $780,
600. The origin is supposed to have been
n spark from passing locomotive.
| Lord Wolseley has just lost one brother,
m army surgeon, and has two surviving.
Burkes Pcerage to the contrary notwith-
standing. One is an adjutant general in
| Bengal and the other a sQuatter in Aus.
tralia.
| Judge Thomas S. Ashe. OF the North Car.
DINA supreme court, is dead.
Mr.. Ferguson, parliamentary secretary
for foreign Office stated recently in the
house Of commons: The correspondence
between Great Britain and the United
States in relation to the Canadian fisheries
question would in a short time be laid be-
| fore parliament. The correspondence con-
| tanned full Information about the history
OF the whole affair down to very recent
date. A dispatch from the dominion gov.
eminent containing suggestions as to mo-
dus operandi between Canada and the
| United States, was now on its way to Lon
don. The imperial government could not,
| therefore, send proposals to Washington
until the Canadian dispatch had been re-
ceived and considered.
! At Chicago, Joe Acton, champion catch
| as catchcan wrestler OF America, defeated
| Evan Lewis Of Madison, Wis.
| Rev. T. De Witt Talmagc, OF the Brook
Ign Tabernacle, has been called to the
passionate OF the Plymouth Congregational
| church in Chicago.
Henry Clay Dean. Democratic orator
and chaplain of the United States senate.
died ut his home in Putnam cnunty, NO.,
aged sixty-tive.
At Philadelphia. Goldsmith Brothers.
manufactures Of clothing, have made an
assignment. Liabilities $100,OOO assets
unknown.